Combination-check.



M. DALY.

COMBINATION CHECK.

APPLICATION IILED APR. 6, 1911.

1,028,684, Patented June 4, 1912.

IN l/E/V TOR MIL HEAL DAL) Z 4 ATTORNEY.

. UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHEAL DALY, F IVIIAIRYVILLE, ILLINOIS.

COMBINATION-CHECK.

Specification of Letters ratent.

Application filed April 6, 1911. Serial No. 619,384.

' To all whom it may concern:

ful Improvements in Combination-Checks,

of which the following is a specification, ref-.

erence being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to books Containing a number of checks or coupons which are detachable therefrom.

The invention has special reference to coupon' books containing a strip of paper formed with a number of folds and with detachable checks or coupons from end to end of said strip, said folded strip being contained between the covers of the book.

This invention relates to check books. to be used by'miners in a mine to check off loaded coal cars as they are drawnfrom the mine to the surface of the earth. In sending cars loaded with coal from the bottom of a mine to the surface of the earth it hasbeen the custom for each'man sending up each car to. place a number on a chip of wood or on a slip of paper which is received by the man at the mouth of the mine who weighs the coal, and credits the weightto' the miner sending it up. In checking ofl' cars loaded with 'coal in'this way the chip of wood or slip of paper is very easily lost in making the trip, thereby losing the identity of the number of the car, and causing a loss to the miner loading the same.

The invention has for its object to providev -means for obviating the loss of the chip of wood or slip of paper and thereby the loss of the identity of the carso that a reliable and safe system of checking will be provided which will indentify the cars as they are sent up to the surface of the earth from the bottom of the mine.

Referring to the accompanying drawingsz-Figure 1 1s a View in perspective of.

a miners check book constructed in accordance with this invention, and shown as open and partly unfolded. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the book in folded position. Fig. 3 is a View in perspective of the book in open position, with a few of the coupons left.

Fig. 4 is a view in perspective ofja portion of a. coal car showing a coupon check sus- Patented June 4, 1912.

paper or other suitable material which is folded up into folds 2 of the length of the covers of the book, said strip being composed of a number of coupon checks 3 with tearing lines 4 so that they may be separable from each other. The strip so formed and folded is mounted between a pair of covers 5 and, is secured at one end thereof to one of the covers 5 in any suitable manner. Each of the coupon checks is formed adjacent to'one end with a hole 6 by means of which it may be placed upon a hook when detached from the strip.

In order to hold the. folds of the strip 1 in compactposition and prevent the folded strips from causing the cover to fly open after thebook has been closed, flat headed pins 7 may be employed which are inserted in the holes formed by the alining holes 6.

, To indicate the manner of using-the book, it is given a number, as for example, 184, .which is placed on-the coupon checks and indicates the particular miner to which the book belongs and who loads the car, and the coupon checks are numbered from 1 to 24 according to the desired number of checks employed. As the .cars are loaded in the mine the minertears off a coupon check for each car, commencing with number 1, and hangs it by means of the hole 6 on the hook 8 on the side of a coal car 9, and when the coal reaches the weighman he credits 184 with the first car of coal, and so on as each I loaded car arrives with a coupon check. Should, by any accident, a coupon check be mocked off of the coal car in transit, and the car reaches the weighman without any coupon check he credits the weight in the lost car column, and when the next loaded car reaches the weighman he will discover by the number on the. coupon check of the next car arriving what the lost number on the preceding car is, and will then credit the miner with suchmissing number.

The miner using this coupon check book will, at all times, have a record of the number ofcars of coal loaded by him by simply referring his book.

" T CGPY to one of said covers and formed with overlapping folds, eaohfold being composed of a number of coupon checks, each having a h'o1e,t-he holes of said coupons resting upon one another being in alinement, fiat headed pins located in said. alining: holes and a 10 book number and a consecutive seria1 .fnu1n- Y her being located on each coupon.

1 In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

v MICHEAL DALY. llitnesses;

FRANK M. Soo'rr, HoRAoE'H. LOOK. 

